US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Nov. 18 for "Image sensor signal path routing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,854, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Image sensor signal path routing" was invented by Nicholas Paul Cowley (Wroughton, Great Britain), Andrew David Talbot (Chieveley, Great Britain) and Stephen James Spinks (Shrivenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor may include an image sensor pixel array. The image sensor pixel array may include active image sensor pixels and non-active image sensor pixels. A line of peripheral image sensor pixels may be coupled to a corresponding interconnect structure via a pixel signal path. The pixel signal path may ...